Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This 7,286 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
Fifteen Thousand Spectators Gather to See the Lynching of Henry Smith, February 3, 1893
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Henry Smith (?-1893)
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Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. (1937-2018)
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The Jackson State Killings, 1970

Explore Global African History

Workers and a child sitting and standing around a table and paper drawers
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O Clarim da Alvorada (1924-1932)
Folorunsho Alakija
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Folorunso Alakija (1951- )
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Two Families, Two Destinies: A Personal Perspective on the Rwandan Genocide of 1994
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The Pan-African Congresses, 1900-1945

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

Three Harlem women, photo by James Van Der Zee
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The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance
New York Times Article on the Lynching of George Smith, Obion County, April 1931
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Eyewitness to Terror: The Lynching of a Black Man in Obion County, Tennessee in 1931
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Battle of Adwa (Adowa), 1896
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The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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